NEO (7482) 1994 PC1 – 15min trackng

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19 January 2022 at 10:59 pm #575140

Michael O’Connell
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A little video I recorded this evening (2022 Jan 19) tracking near-earth asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 for 15 mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3W4L8v9aaY&ab_channel=MichaelOC_

20 January 2022 at 3:24 pm #585139

Richard Miles
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Thanks for posting that Michael.

At some 1km across it is very large and being only about 2 million km from us it turns out to be the brightest NEO in the last 4-5 years reaching magnitude 10 and so very observable. You have caught it the evening after closest approach when it was still bright at 11th magnitude.

20 January 2022 at 8:07 pm #585140

Peter Carson
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Here’s my animation of NEO (7482) 1994 PC1 taken on 2022 January 18th at 19:55UT.

https://youtu.be/8NK9gaM_0zM

It is 50 x 10 second exposures using my 315mm CDK reflector from my remote observatory in Spain.

My still image is here https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20220119_211304_d85e6413ccc59e53

Peter

20 January 2022 at 8:22 pm #585141

Michael O’Connell
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Thanks Richard and Peter.
I really enjoyed watching this asteroid moving ‘live’ – a rare sight.
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